Nitin Ranjan is a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and currently serves in the Indian Revenue Service, Government of India. His work lies at the intersection of caste, democratic accountability, and data justice in South Asia. As co-founder of Inside Jharkhand Academy, Nitin has led grassroots efforts to document caste-based exclusions in education, welfare access, and identity systems across underserved regions. His research interrogates how the absence of caste-disaggregated data perpetuates structural invisibility and erodes democratic equity.
